AIDS

A second early documented HIV-1 infection was discovered in a preserved lymph node biopsy sample taken in 1960 from a woman from Leopoldville, Belgian Congo.

WORLD

1960 is also known as the “Year of Africa”.

The Yale AIDS Memorial Project, (YAMP) is an alumni-led ini­tia­tive to honor and doc­u­ment the lives of hun­dreds of men and women from the Uni­ver­sity who per­ished dur­ing the AIDS epi­demic. Learn more about YAMP at http://www.yaleaidsmemorialproject.org.